4. A quarto volume containing many short occasional poems, the first being "A Latin poem on the death of President Chauncy of Harvard College"; the second, "An Elegy upon the death of that holy man of God, Mr. Symmes, late pastor of the church of Christ in Charlestown, N. E., who departed this life the 4th day of 12th month Anno Domini 1670"; together with many other pieces, chiefly elegies on eminent persons in the Colony. 5. Letter to Increase Mather, dated Westfield 22d Im: 1682-3. In Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, xxxviii. 629. Giving an account of a hail storm and meteorological information. 6. Letter, dated Westfield, 8 day of the 7th month, 1674, to 'my friend and only beloved Miss Elizabeth Fitch, at her father's house in Norwich." In F. M. Caulkins's History of Norwich, with a pictorial illustration, 154; and in the Westfield Jubilee, 157; and in Lockwood's Sermon, 40. This has been called "A Model Love Letter." It begins, "My Dove," and in the latter part "runs into the style of a sermon and the lover is almost lost in the theologian." "The address was accompanied with a crude sketch of a carrier dove with an olive-branch in his mouth," "in the lower corner of the letter, of the size of an old-fashioned ninepence, without feathers, and looking like a plucked chicken. It was necessary to denude it of its feathers, to have room to inscribe upon the side of its body the following couplet: 'this Dove and Olive branch to you is both a post and Emblem too."" 7. "Such things as are herein contained are the Principalls of Physick, as to the practical part thereof, being extracts of that famous Physician, Riverius." AUTHORITIES. Boston News- mer, Genealogical Register, 282. J. E. Letter, 1729, July. F. M. Caulkins, G. Holland, History of Western Massachusetts, i. 107, 115. A. Holmes, Life of President Stiles, 380. J. H. Lockwood, Sermon on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Westfield, 1013, 17-19, 38-44. Massachusetts Histor. Society, Collections, xxxviii. 629. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vi. 267. New in Proceedings of the Massachusetts England Journal, 1729, July 14. J. Historical Society, 1880, April, p. 4. R. H. Walworth, Hyde Genealogy, ii. 1173. Westfield Jubilee. A Report of the Celebration at Westfield, Mass., on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation, 56, 59, 63, 125, 152. "December 1, 1674. "Ordered that the four persons that commenced Masters in the year 1674 they having first paid their detrimts unto the Colledg shall, (on speciall reasons) be rebated forty shillings a peece by the Colledg." - Corporation Records, i. 52; iii. 64. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. ALTHOUGH there were no graduates in 1672, to take their second degree in 1675, it appears from the following Order of Exercises that there was a Commencement in 1675, at which the performers belonged to the class that is printed as graduating in 1671. In 1674 the opposition to President Hoar was at its height. August 24, after the Commencement, Governor Leverett wrote, Hoar's " opposers loose ground, and I hope the worke will yet be carried an end. The not effecting the disappointment of the last commencement, and the Lord's helping the Doctor in that act to pass with general acceptance gives some hopes that he may gett over the check given him in his beginning." But it seems he did not. He sent in his resignation 15 March, 1675, and “the Hard and Ill Usage" which he "met withal made so deep an Impression upon his Mind, that his Grief threw him into a Consumption, whereof he dyed." It is not improbable that several students had left college in 1674, who, after Hoar resigned, returned and took their degrees of Master of Arts under Oakes as President pro tempore. QUESTIONES Pro modulo Discutiendæ SUB REVERENDO URIANO OAKES, ECCLESIÆ CANTABRIGIENSIS PASTORE, ET HARVARDINI COLLEGII In Cantabrigia Nov-Anglorum Præside pro tempore, PER INCEPTORES IN ARTIBUS IN COMITIIS QUARTO IDUUM SEXTILIUM 1 6 7 5. N detur absolutum Decretum Reprobationis. Affirmat Respondens Isaacus Foster. II. An Anima rationalis fiat ex traduce. Negat Respondens Samuel Phips. III. An Species Intelligibiles sint Ra tiones Logica Affirmat Respondens Samuel Danforth. IV. An Attributa Dei differant realiter ab Essentia. Negat Respondens Guilielmus Adams. ANTECEDIT ORATIO GRATULATORIA. December 4, 1880. CLASS OF 1673. Edward Pelham, George Alcock, Samuel Angier, QUESTIONES SUB REVERENDO URIANO OAKES, ECCLESIÆ CANTABRIGIENSIS PASTORE, In Cantabrigia Nov-Anglorum Præside pro tempore, PER INCEPTORES IN ARTIBUS IN COMITIIS SEXTO IDUS SEXTILES I. MDCLXXV I. N Voluntas semper determinetur ab ultimo Intellectus practici Fudicio? Negat Respondens Samuel Angier. 11. An impossibile sit Mundum fuisse ab æterno? Affirmat Respondens Johannes Wise. |